Bug 209407

Summary: Download attribute does not work when page is installed on home screen
Product: WebKit Reporter: Tony Hursh <tony.hursh>
Component: DOMAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: Normal CC: achristensen, aestes, beidson, henning, tony.hursh, webkit-bug-importer, youennf
Priority: P2 Keywords: InRadar
Version: Safari 13   
Hardware: iPhone / iPad   
OS: iOS 13   
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Tony Hursh
Reported 2020-03-22 16:41:55 PDT
Created attachment 394235 [details] Small HTML file that demonstrates the issue. The download attribute works fine for me in both desktop and mobile Safari, as long as the page is loaded normally. However, it fails when the page is installed to the device home screen. On the old bug, #167341, another commenter mentioned some peculiarities with pages installed to the home screen, but what I'm seeing is slightly different. It just fails silently. When I inspect it in a remote debugging console from desktop Safari, no errors are shown. A minimal example is attached. Steps to reproduce: 1) Load attached HTML file in mobile Safari. 2) Add the page to the device home screen. 2) Click the "Click to prepare file" button to generate the file. 3) Click the "Click to download file" link. Results: Desktop Safari: works fine. Mobile Safari when loaded as a normal web page: works fine. Mobile Safari when added to the home screen: fails silently. Mobile Safari version: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 13_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0.5 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
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Small HTML file that demonstrates the issue. (865 bytes, text/html)
2020-03-22 16:41 PDT, Tony Hursh 		no flags
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Radar WebKit Bug Importer
Comment 1 2020-03-24 19:15:08 PDT
<rdar://problem/60854018>
Brady Eidson
Comment 2 2020-03-24 22:25:21 PDT
I highly suspect this is not a Webkit issue and is rather an issue with Apple internal app that hosts "Save to home screen" web apps. Running the radar by that team.
Tony Hursh
Comment 3 2020-12-20 22:03:38 PST
I just revisited this after some time, and it appears that the bug/limitation has been fixed in (or possibly before) iOS 14.3. Marking as Resolved.
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